Name
Peleus, Neilos, Patermouthios and Elias, martyrs of the Phaeno copper mines
Saint ID
S00197
Reported Death Not Before
310
Reported Death Not After
310
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
| ID | Title | E00318 | Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Ecclesiastical History (8.13 and 9.6), gives a list of nineteen Christian leaders martyred alongside numerous other Christians in various regions of the East during the tetrarchic persecutions (304-313). Written in Greek in Palestine, 311/325. | E00384 | Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Martyrs of Palestine (13.1-3), narrates the martyrdom of *Peleus, Neilos, Patermouthios and Elias (martyrs of the Phaeno copper mines, S00197). Written in Greek at Caesarea (Palestine), in 311; a longer version of the text survives only in a later Syriac translation. | E02383 | John Chrysostom, in his Encomion on Egyptian Martyrs, refers to Egyptian martyrs (probably those of Palestine), and to relics sent from Alexandria to various places. The saints protect these cities against enemies and demons. Written in Greek, probably at Constantinople in 397/407. | E03862 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 11 September the deposition of the relics of *Euphemia (martyr of Chalcedon, S00017), and the Empress Eudokia (ob. 460), and *Peleus (martyr of the Phaeno copper mines, S00197), and Peter, 9th c. bishop of Nicaea and confessor. | E03870 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 19 September *Peleus, Neilos, Patermouthios, and Ēlias, (martyrs of the Phaeno copper mines, S00197), *Trophimos (martyr in Synnada, central Asia Minor, S00606), and *Agathoklia (servant and martyr, otherwise unknown, S01668). |
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